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WEDNESDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 1944
EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)
STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): Mission 714: 6 B-17s and 6
B-24s
drop leaflets in the Netherlands, France and Germany during the
night.
TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): HQ XII Tactical Air Command,
along
with the 71st Fighter Wing, 50th, 358th, and 371st Fighter Groups,
86th Air
Depot Group, and 83d and 312th Service Groups, is assigned to the
First
Tactical Air Force (Provisional); when hostilities cease the First
Tactical
Air Force will be disbanded and all of its units will revert to the
Ninth AF.
Weather prevents bomber operations and limits fighters; the XIX
Tactical
Air Command flies armed reconnaissance in Merzig-Trier-Saarbrucken,
Germany
area and supports the XX Corps in same area.
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